Rivers Of Trivia Quiz

1) What poet warned the federal government about issues that would eventually lead to a rebellion on the Prairies?

2) In what years did a gold dredge search the North Saskatchewan River for gold?

3) Why would government geographer Henry Youle Hind stick his ear in a badger hole?

4) What public figures were burned in effigy during the Prince Albert telegraph line dispute in 1883?

5) Who is La Colle Falls named after?

6) Who is the Richardson's Ground Squirrel named after?

7) What was the name of the last continental ice sheet to cover Saskatchewan?

8) What HBC surveyor taught the art of map making to geographers David Thompson and Peter Fidler?

9) Who was the first European to go up the North Saskatchewan River?

10) What steamboat was involved in the Northwest Rebellion?

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Answers

1) Charles Mair.

2) From about 1905 to 1909.

3) According to Hind, it was the best way to hear the sound of the approaching buffalo.

4) Hartley Gisborne, district superintendent of telegraphs in theNorthwest, and Lawrence Clark, HBC employee.

5) Fur trader John Cole.

6) John Richardson.

7) The Laurentide Ice Sheet.

8) Philip Turnor.

9) Henry Kelsey.

10) The Northcote.